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Amma of all sops: Free phones, 50% off on scooters

May 6, 2016

Chennai, May 6: AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa on Thursday unveiled her party manifesto for the May 16 assembly elections, promising freebies such as mobile phones to all 1.92 crore ration card holders, 50% subsidy on scooters for working women, 100 units of free power and free Wi-Fi at public places."I have fulfilled all the promises made in the last election. This time I'll do more than you can imagine (if returned to office)," she said in Perunthurai in Tamil Nadu's Erode district. In 2011, she had a similar manifesto, outdoing her rivals in the last leg of the campaign. The promises are largely meant for first-time voters and women who form her core constituency.

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After the last election, she had distributed free laptops to class 11and 12 students. Now they have been promised free internet connectivity.The `Amma bonanza' comes at a stage in the campaign when the DMK was seen to be gaining ground.

DMK's Karunanidhi had announced tablets for 16 lakh school students and smartphones for the poor.He had also promised power subsidies, lower milk prices and a waiver on educational and farm loans. Jayalalithaa has incorporated most of these, and gone a few steps ahead.

Highlights of the AIADMK manifesto, released on Thursday, include a complete waiver of all farm loans, Rs 40,000-crore loans for farmers from 2016-21, no FDI in retail, free laptops with internet for Class 10th and 12th students, free set top boxes to all Arasu cable TV subscribers, and up to 100 units of electricity free of cost to consumers, which will exempt 78 lakh domestic consumers from paying electricity bill. The poor have been promised an Amma banking card to avail of all government services while a Rs 50-crore Amma Venture Capital fund will be set up for first generation entrepreneurs. The manifesto also talks of breakfast for primary schoolchildren. PMK member Anbumani madoss, who has positio Ramadoss, who has positioned himself as an alternative to the two veterans, said, "The government has increased the financial burden on the state. This will go further up."

The TN poll debate is gradually veering away from personality cults to the themes of development and corruption, especially in urban areas.

Both AIADMK and DMK have focussed on jobs, infrastructure, start-ups, industry and investments. DMK's leader-in-waiting M K Stalin agreed that jobs mattered more to young voters than freebies.For the first time, both parties have promised an anti-corruption ombudsman.

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June 8,2020

Lucknow, Jun 8: The coronavirus which has now been assigned a gender, is being worshipped in Uttar Pradesh also after Bihar as superstition run deep. Women in some villages in Tumkuhiraj, Kasia, Hata, Captanganj and Khadda tehsil in Kushinagar district have started worshipping 'Corona Mai' and are pleading with her to spare lives.

These women have dug a small pit in the field, filled it with water and each one offers nine cloves and nine 'laddoos' to 'Corona Mai' to appease her.

Women from adjoining villages are now flocking to the 'temple' to pray to 'Corona Mai'.

Some local people have appealed to the district administration to stop such activities which spread superstition and misinformation.

Radhey Lal, a school teacher in Kasia, said, "The authorities must stop such activities which promote superstition. Everyone knows that there is no cure for corona and this kind of activities must be stopped."

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April 3,2020

New Delhi, Apr 3: The total number of coronavirus cases in Delhi has risen to 384, including 259 who were evacuated from Nizamuddin Markaz, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Friday.

In last 24 hours, 91 new cases were reported in the national capital and one more person evacuated from the Markaz died due to coronavirus, taking the total number of deaths in the city to five, he said.

Of the 384 cases, 58 had recent foreign travel history and 38 contracted the virus after coming in contact with them, he added.

Kejriwal said community spread of the virus is not taking place in Delhi yet and there is no need to panic as the situation is under control.

The government has made preparations if the virus starts spreading among people, he said.

The chief minister also launched a WhatsApp helpline - 8800007722 for people to enquire about COVID-19, food banks, shelters among others.

Meanwhile, Kejriwal, deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia and experts will interact with students and answer their queries related to the virus at 3 pm on Saturday.

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August 3,2020

Aug 3: Iqbal Ansari, who was a litigant in the Ayodhya land dispute case, has decided to gift a 'Ram nami' stole and a copy of the Ramcharitmanas to Prime Minister Narendra Modi when he attends the bhoomi pujan ceremony for the Ram temple here on Wednesday.

"Yes, I have received the invitation from Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust for the bhoomi pujan ceremony. I will certainly attend it. The dispute is over now after the court's verdict," Ansari, 69, told .

"Our Prime Minister is coming. I will meet him and give him a 'Ramnami' stole (with Ram's name written on it) and Ramcharitmanas as a present," Ansari said.

His father Hashim Ansari, the oldest litigant in the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi land dispute case, died at the age of 95 in 2016 after which the son started pursuing the case in the court.

Talking about Wednesday's ground-breaking ceremony to mark the beginning of the construction of a grand Ram temple here, Ansari said, "I belong to Ayodhya. All this (temple's construction) will change the fate of Ayodhya. We all want our child to get better opportunities".

He further said, "I respect sadhus and saints. I am happy to have received the invitation for the ceremony. I think it is Lord Ram's will that I attend it".

When asked what he would have done had the court decided the case in his favour, Ansari said he had wanted the construction of a school and a hospital on the disputed land.

"I feel the city needs development. The future of our children should be safe and secure and they should get employment. Dispute in the name of religion should end now and we should let the city witness a new beginning," he said.

The Supreme Court had in November last year paved the way for the construction of a Ram temple by a Trust at the disputed site of the Babri Masjid's demolition in Ayodhya, and directed the Centre to allot an alternative 5-acre plot to the Sunni Waqf Board for building a new mosque at a "prominent" place in the holy town in Uttar Pradesh.

The state government has allotted a five-acre land in Dhannipur village in Sohaval Tehsil of Ayodhya for the mosque's construction.

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